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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
13 L.S. "Napol," "Nap" or "NP," November 4-28, 1808, to Archchancellor CAMBACÉRÈS| the letters are written by Fain (3) or Méneval| 4 1/2 and 10 half pages in-4.
[483-495]
Napoleon's Campaign in Spain.
Bayonne November 4. "My cousin, I arrived in Bayonne on the 3rd, at two hours after midnight. I leave at this moment to carry my headquarters to Tolosa, the operations are begun. The enemy is already beaten on all sides| the prisoners are arriving. The weather is rather bad"...
Vittoria November 7. "I have been here since the day before yesterday and I am very busy organizing the army. Various military events have taken place. My troops are finishing to arrive. I await this evening the Imperial Guard.
Vittoria November 8. "The operations have begun here. You will see by the bulletin what happened until today. This evening I am moving my headquarters further away"...
Burgos November 13. "You could insinuate the idea that the Legislative Body decrees a monument on the heights of Mars (Montmartre) in which would be preserved the memory of this proof of esteem that I give to the Legislative Body. The electoral colleges would pay for this monument. All the members would pay, for this purpose, a sum of one thousand francs each in the space of ten years, that is to say one hundred francs per year, which would make fifteen million or fifteen hundred thousand francs per month.
A Deputation of the Legislative Body would be charged to bring me the wish that this monument was decreed before the end of the present session. It will be named a commission of the Legislative Body to follow the plans, estimates, & the details of the execution. Let ideas from the Code of Commerce, the Napoleonic Code, the Criminal Code, etc., be mixed into all this. It is a way to have a beautiful monument that the position of Paris requires, and to have it made at the expenses of people that it will not disturb "...
Burgos November 16. He wants "to confer the title of Count to Major General DELABORDE, & to Major General LOISON, if the latter is not already. I also wish to grant the title of Baron to the Brigadier Generals Solignac, Taviel, Rouyer, and to the Colonels Foy, Maransin, Prost, Mangin-Douence, and Daboville employed in the 8th corps commanded by the
Duc d'Abrantès, for the services they have rendered me. [...] I reserve myself to give them all a majorate transmissible to their families ".
Burgos November 17. He wants "to confer the title of count to the Councillor of State
BEUGNOT. Present to my signature his letters patent"...
Burgos 18 November. "The bulletins will let you know that business is going well. - My intention is to give the title of Count to the Sieur
MOLÉ Prefect of the Department of the Gold Coast "...
Burgos November 19. "I approve that the Criminal Code be put into effect only on January 1, 1810, if this is the opinion of the Council. For the rest of the laws, when they will have been brought to the Legislative Body, I think like you that on December 15, this body could be dissolved"...
Burgos November 21. "I saw with interest that the law of finance had pleased"...
Aranda November 25. "You will have seen by the bulletins that I sent you that the events continued to follow one another here with the suitable speed. Wouldn't it be useful to prevent the newspapers from sowing ridiculous rumors and from giving random news which is almost always false?"...
Aranda November 28. "I had a monument erected at the Magdeleine to the glory of the Grande Armée. It is necessary that the Legislative Body makes erect on the heights of Montmartre a kind of temple of Janus which bears for title:
The Deputies of the Departments to the Legislative Body and the members of the
electoral Colleges of the French Empire made erect this temple &c &c.
In this monument the first solemn publications of the peace and the distribution of the decennial prizes would take place. It would be a kind of temple of Janus. It may cost less than thirty to forty millions. The
Legislative Body must present me with a petition to request a law by which each member of the electoral colleges (and there are thirty or forty thousand of them), will be invited to pay one thousand or three thousand francs according to his fortune, & each one will pay this sum by fifths each year. By this means one will have in five years thirty or forty million which will be employed to push the work quickly| & one will make of this temple one of the most beautiful monumens of the Universe"... - My Cousin, I am shocked and indignant at everything I hear about the Lafarge Fund.
I wish that within eight days, the Council of State will have pronounced and that good justice will be done to these hundred thousand shareholders"...
Aranda November 28. "The bulletins are not admitted documents| they must appear in the Moniteur without anyone knowing where they come from.
You alone must take note of them and not show them to anyone.
13 L.S. "Napol," "Nap" or "NP," November 4-28, 1808, to Archchancellor CAMBACÉRÈS| the letters are written by Fain (3) or Méneval| 4 1/2 and 10 half pages in-4.
[483-495]
Napoleon's Campaign in Spain.
Bayonne November 4. "My cousin, I arrived in Bayonne on the 3rd, at two hours after midnight. I leave at this moment to carry my headquarters to Tolosa, the operations are begun. The enemy is already beaten on all sides| the prisoners are arriving. The weather is rather bad"...
Vittoria November 7. "I have been here since the day before yesterday and I am very busy organizing the army. Various military events have taken place. My troops are finishing to arrive. I await this evening the Imperial Guard.
Vittoria November 8. "The operations have begun here. You will see by the bulletin what happened until today. This evening I am moving my headquarters further away"...
Burgos November 13. "You could insinuate the idea that the Legislative Body decrees a monument on the heights of Mars (Montmartre) in which would be preserved the memory of this proof of esteem that I give to the Legislative Body. The electoral colleges would pay for this monument. All the members would pay, for this purpose, a sum of one thousand francs each in the space of ten years, that is to say one hundred francs per year, which would make fifteen million or fifteen hundred thousand francs per month.
A Deputation of the Legislative Body would be charged to bring me the wish that this monument was decreed before the end of the present session. It will be named a commission of the Legislative Body to follow the plans, estimates, & the details of the execution. Let ideas from the Code of Commerce, the Napoleonic Code, the Criminal Code, etc., be mixed into all this. It is a way to have a beautiful monument that the position of Paris requires, and to have it made at the expenses of people that it will not disturb "...
Burgos November 16. He wants "to confer the title of Count to Major General DELABORDE, & to Major General LOISON, if the latter is not already. I also wish to grant the title of Baron to the Brigadier Generals Solignac, Taviel, Rouyer, and to the Colonels Foy, Maransin, Prost, Mangin-Douence, and Daboville employed in the 8th corps commanded by the
Duc d'Abrantès, for the services they have rendered me. [...] I reserve myself to give them all a majorate transmissible to their families ".
Burgos November 17. He wants "to confer the title of count to the Councillor of State
BEUGNOT. Present to my signature his letters patent"...
Burgos 18 November. "The bulletins will let you know that business is going well. - My intention is to give the title of Count to the Sieur
MOLÉ Prefect of the Department of the Gold Coast "...
Burgos November 19. "I approve that the Criminal Code be put into effect only on January 1, 1810, if this is the opinion of the Council. For the rest of the laws, when they will have been brought to the Legislative Body, I think like you that on December 15, this body could be dissolved"...
Burgos November 21. "I saw with interest that the law of finance had pleased"...
Aranda November 25. "You will have seen by the bulletins that I sent you that the events continued to follow one another here with the suitable speed. Wouldn't it be useful to prevent the newspapers from sowing ridiculous rumors and from giving random news which is almost always false?"...
Aranda November 28. "I had a monument erected at the Magdeleine to the glory of the Grande Armée. It is necessary that the Legislative Body makes erect on the heights of Montmartre a kind of temple of Janus which bears for title:
The Deputies of the Departments to the Legislative Body and the members of the
electoral Colleges of the French Empire made erect this temple &c &c.
In this monument the first solemn publications of the peace and the distribution of the decennial prizes would take place. It would be a kind of temple of Janus. It may cost less than thirty to forty millions. The
Legislative Body must present me with a petition to request a law by which each member of the electoral colleges (and there are thirty or forty thousand of them), will be invited to pay one thousand or three thousand francs according to his fortune, & each one will pay this sum by fifths each year. By this means one will have in five years thirty or forty million which will be employed to push the work quickly| & one will make of this temple one of the most beautiful monumens of the Universe"... - My Cousin, I am shocked and indignant at everything I hear about the Lafarge Fund.
I wish that within eight days, the Council of State will have pronounced and that good justice will be done to these hundred thousand shareholders"...
Aranda November 28. "The bulletins are not admitted documents| they must appear in the Moniteur without anyone knowing where they come from.
You alone must take note of them and not show them to anyone.